I hesitate to guess on numbers, because the Pats game plan seems to be so variable to begin with, and he could get anywhere from 20 to 40 pass attempts based on the scoreboard.
If they stop the Jets well on defense, I think you're right on the money: 65% completion, 7-7.5 yards per attempt, and a couple TDs. On the other hand if Favre and Thomas Jones are gashing the Pats, expect less, like 22/40 for 200-220 yards.

wow... I had told my new directv dvr to record the colts-vikings on one of the 700 channels... not knowing it would be the local telecast game and thus blacked out. It knew enough to switch it to the other channel.

Well, let's put it this way:
Seahawks.com has said for SEVERAL MONTHS that there are NO tickets to home games available for purchase, unless you go to the "ticket exchange" (i.e. buy from a fan/scalper).

Every so often out of the corner of my eye I catch plays in the Bengals-Titans game. I saw Collins badly overthrowing a WR who was wide open on the right sideline deep, and a whole lot of ugly from the Bengals, who seem to have forgotten how to play offense.

The Detroit Lions are looking even worse than the Rams looked last week.

For the life of me, I cannot understand how Millen has a job still. I am certain, 100% certain, that even an average Joe fan like me could have them significantly more competitive than they currently are within 2 years.

But this would be my strategy-- go by the consensus 'best available' off of the TV shows. It would do better than Millen has done. I could hire a former agent to negotiate the contracts. Then I could sit in the luxury box and know that I have done better than my predecessor.

There was a play on that last drive where the defensive tackle literally ran past the center so quickly that he got to Manning at the same time the ball did. Unbelievably, Manning got the ball away for a completion.

This is the worst offensive line performance I've seen since some of Oakland's absurdities last year.

What's annoying is that even the guys who have been there before (the tackles) are playing terribly too. You expect it of the interior, but not those guys. Ugoh had at least one play where he stood there without touching anyone, and since he left, Johnson managed to give up on a play (after Peyton got rid of the ball) and get Manning hit unnecessarily.

With Ugoh out that makes 4 new guys on the O Line, a penalty prone right tackle, and their OLine Coach is out with injury too! That is not a recipe for success. They could easily get shut out.

sigh, in hurry-up offense inside two minutes, after a peterson run setting up 3rd and four, vikings take about 20 seconds to set up followed by an argument between 7-T.Jackson and 18-S.Rice on where Rice was supposed to be, finally ending with a timeout.

At least the Vikings punt unit is doing some good things to make up for the QB sputtering. Although that time I guess he was out of bounds so it comes out to the 20.

It looked to me like the first one inside the 5 actually touched the goal line and was there when the one guy knocked it back. Thankfully the Colts managed to run a positive play and get a first down after that start.

Gonzalez is going to have a great year. He's getting open a lot and seems to have good hands, that one play last week excepted.

The Colts just look weird when they try to run. It's not all O-line issues. They kept running pitches for Addai but, rather than stretching it out at all, Manning would just toss it pretty much straight backwards and Addai wouldn't have any time.

And yeah, the Vikings should be absolutely killing the Colts today. The only real bright spot is Gonzalez is looking great. There's been a few passes towards Harrison where Marvin's looked completely lost.

The vikings are awesome up until they get to the Indy 30 AND the vikings punt game has been spectacular in pinning the Colts deep AND the colts can't get anything going on offense.... the fact that I have Ryan Longwell on my fantasy team is working out very very nicely.

Annnnnd he hit's his third one, this one from 53.
And the vikings are up 2 scores. The fact that the Colts should have been the biggest roadblock to a Steelers AFC championship and might fall to 0-2 is icing on the cake at this point.

Andrew you got one more guy on the Minnesota bandwagon this week haha.

The Giants have a 20-6 lead midway through the 3rd quarter. As the Eagles were up on the Rams, I think, 28-0 and the game was obviously over at this point , are we to assume that 1) the Eagles really are that good or 2) the Giants offense just doesn't have that many points in it?

Bears got away with a blatant personal foul on a sliding quarterback, not only hitting late, but also with the shoulder into the head, If this was Manning instead of Delhomme there would have been nine yellow flags flying out in every direction.

Amazing that they could miss it given they have already called 18 accepted penalties.

First of all a shoulder to the head isn't a penalty (except on a QB in the pocket where you aren't allowed to breath on the head of a QB), secondly, it looks like Briggs took off before Delhomme slid, and the announcer's agree.

The QB needs to slide before the player starts to tackle. Delholme slid WAY too late. QB's need to realize that if you're going to slide, you need to give up a yard or two to do it. You need to slide BEFORE the defenders get close.

Totally legal hit. Delholmme needs to slide before the defenders are about to drill him. Great non-call.

CBS's camera placement is worthless in the HHH dome. The camera that's supposed to be on the goal line is about a yard into the end zone. But on that one, it did look like the tip of the ball touched the tip of the line. And then Williams simply tossed him back and to the side like a rag doll.

If you ask me, the 2nd QB sneak looked like he got in... and certainly got farther than the 0 inches they gave them. I would've liked to see their bad angle replays of that one.

If Wayne had gotten in after that lateral, does that count as a touchdown pass or a run?

Not asking for fantasy purposes, just curious. Dierdorf mentioned it'd be a TD pass for Manning but I'm not sure that makes sense. Also, Dierdorf is an idiot, so I don't trust him. So that's a 76 yard completion including 17 YACAL?

Defense looks better. Freeney got blatantly tackled on that third down play. Good thing Jackson can't hit the broad side of a barn on most throws.

Incredible. And the game is tied... on a running play for 2. That play gained more than double their average output for the game on rushes.

Wish CBS would've shown us what they were talking about with Manning being upset and some violence after the play. Sounds like maybe he took a late hit or something.

The balls look almost like they're going to float high out of Peyton's hand, but so far they have all settled right down into their targets, with the exception of the tip/pick last drive and the overthrow in the back of the end zone before the missed field goal. He still gets more zing than most QBs, but it doesn't look quite the same so far.

There was no PI on the deep ball to Berrian. I think they couldn't make up their mind on the play before. Hayden had his hands all over him. But the receiver was handsy back and I think that threw them off.

Usually the Colts get screwed on spots (but helped on everything else) so it's a bit odd to see these blatantly incorrect spots.

Gonzalez got held up a bit on that 2nd down throw. So maybe it's starting to even out.

The colts usually get screwed on PI calls? Since when? If I had to pick an NFL team that received the benefit of more bad PI calls than any other, it would be Indy. Although, its usually their offense getting them.

Peterson's got 160 yards on 29 carries. Listen, Vikes, I know he seems like he's handling 30 carries a game just fine--after all, he did it a lot in college--but you have to remember, he also missed a lot of games in college.

Rich, I said on spots, not on PI calls. They almost always benefit from those. But I've seen a ton of really bad spots over the past 5 years always going against them, which is why it's a bit odd to see them getting gifts in that area this year as well.

Kyle cannot make a deep throw. He is terrible at that. I mean breathtakingly bad. He is so good at the short stuff and squeezing in the quick throw, but, wow, he is atrocious on the deep throw. Why didn't they bring in Grossman at the end when they needed the deep ball, or at least the threat of a deep ball?

Wow, Simms & Company are covering this game like it's the movie adaptation of Cassel's career. There are still other players on the field, right? I've heard as much references to "him" or "his throw" or "his career" than in the usually-skewed coverage of a Colts game mentioning Manning.

This is playing out almost exactly what I expected to see (Pats-Jets).

Cassel looks pretty good. When he has protection, he's acting decisively, throwing with adequate accuracy, taking what he can get. When protection is inadequate, he's been holding on to the ball when sacked. What more can you ask for? It's premature, but the Pats are looking to be in good hands for this season.

I think the playcalling is a bit conservative. A few too many runs in what I'd see as passing situations, and the level of success from the runs has been.... not amazing.

Also, the red zone offense is crap. With Cassel a smaller threat than Brady, the Jets are keying in on the run pretty well, and pressuring him in to inaction when the Pats do pass.

The field position has been surprisingly one-sided though. The Pats have started I think 3 drives in Jets territory, while the Jets keep having to start on their own 20 because Gostkowski (sp?) has been phenomenal on kickoffs. Every single one has been a touchback.

Edit: Nantz just said it's 4 drives in Jets territory. Still incredible.